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    Something Beautiful

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    7 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

    My pareidolia* must be working overtime today. I just spotted a second man, looking down at the first one.

    Maybe the first guy is an over-affectionate uncle and the second guy is the bride's father.

     

    *pareidolia: The psychological term for seeing shapes in inanimate objects. Now you learned a new word too!

    I see it too, now.  The dark area to the right and slightly higher.

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    Impulsive behavior

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    I think you are confusing "impulsive" with "compulsive"

     

    "Impulsive" implies that something is done on the spur of the moment,, with no preparation or planning.

     

    "Compulsive" means that there is something you feel a need to do and therefor plan and prepare to do accomplish said objective.  Saturday Sales, for example.

    Leaving The US -- Has Anybody Moved Or Are You Considering?

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    1 hour ago, Lysistrata Szapira said:

    There seems to be a misconception of exactly how much higher taxes would be. People tend to forget about the fact that yes, taxes will be higher, but they will likely still have more money left in their pockets because most health insurance plans in the US SUCK.  Extremely high deductibles. High out of pocket maximums. Some studies have shown that people will be less out of pocket under universal healthcare despite the increase in taxes. 

    And you have the same crappy healthcare that Vets get.   You get what you pay for.  I've not talked to anyone from Canada that likes the system there. 

    Do Stores That Shut Down in SL Ever Come Back?

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    Posted · Edited by Doris Johnsky

    I think some stores moved from in-world to marketplace.

     

    Dealing with having to give LL a cut from sales is most likely cheaper than having an in-world store and dealing with the expenses involved.  Labor (assuming you hire people), rental/tier cost (that can be very high), uploading costs if you're doing mesh builds.

    Risk, of course, is losing sales because some people like getting demos for clothes. hair, etc. Good sellers will offer demos in MP to offset this possible loss of sales.

    Superbowl!

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    On 2/7/2022 at 9:25 AM, Sid Nagy said:

    I still think American Rugby would nail the game far better than American football.
    If you use the word football, in 195 of the totally 196 independent states in the world people will think about:


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    Only Americans think about their rugby variation.

    So?   What do you care?   No one is forcing you to watch it. 

    Superbowl!

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    On 2/7/2022 at 7:33 AM, Sid Nagy said:

    I thought the Super Bowl was about the commercials and the half time act.
    Are there really people out there supporting for one of the ..eh.. "football" teams*?

    I don't know if Eurosport or ESPN has the game live over here (somewhere in the night I guess) but on Dutch TV it will be no more than a 30 seconds item in the morning news shows.

     

    * How on earth could they give that sport that name, while over 90% of the time the ball\egg is played with their hands?  It has way more similarities with rugby, plus having to create a new name for real football, that the rest of the world doesn't use.

    The term "football", as applied to American Football, simply derived from the history of the game in the mid 1800s. At that time both Soccer (named came from Association Football, shortened to Association, then shortened AGAIN to Soc, at which point people began adding "er" much like the tenner for a 10 spot) and Rugby.  

     

    When American football was being developed in colleges it resembled Rugby but used a round ball, and was called "football". The name simply stuck.

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    Superbowl!

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    On 2/6/2022 at 8:44 PM, Ayeleeon said:

    I am originally from St. Louis, the Rams moved there in 1995, then abandoned the city in 2015. For this reason I will be rooting for the Bengals.

    To be fair, they abandoned LA to GO to StL. And they only went to StL because the Cards went to Zona

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